Green party

Alan Francis

Alan Francis, 56, is a Transport Consultant and has lived in Milton Keynes for 27 years.

Issues of particular interest to Alan include transport, energy, housing, human rights, environment, technology, disarmament and electoral reform. Other interests include music, films, cycling, walking, gardening.

Alan Francis is Chair of New Bradwell ParishCouncil. He is now a Green Transport Consultant but worked for many years inComputer Graphics. Since joining the Party over 20 years ago he has heldseveral senior positions, including Chair of the National Executive,National Press Officer and Policy Co-ordinator.

He has served on numerous committees and played a prominent role in theParty's policy development, media work, campaigns and constitutionalaffairs. He has stood as a candidate in 5 General Elections, the 1994 and1999 European elections and countless local elections.

He has frequently represented the Party in the national media, includingdebates with ministers, and on campaign groups including Make Votes Count,Platform, Rail Future and the Road Traffic Reduction Troika. He is a memberof several local consultative committees, including the Milton Keynes Environment Partnership and the Milton Keynes Transport Partnership, is ViceChair of Milton Keynes Forum his local civic society and Chair of WolvertonRail Users Group. He is a member of many other organisations including:,Liberty, FoE, BBOWT, Woodland Trust and Transport 2000.

Alan Francis is campaigningagainst the Deputy Prime Minister's plan to build 70,000 houses on thegreenfields around Milton Keynes.

Political experience, previous elections:Chair Green Party Executive (and registered Party Leader), 1998-2000; National Speaker on Transport, 1994-1998, 1999- Policy Advisor on Electoral Reform, 1998- Member of many other Green Party committees and working groups, 1982-2005 Candidate in Milton Keynes for the 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997 (MK NE) and 2001 (MK SW) general elections, in the 1994, 1999 and 2004 European Parliament elections and for district, county and unitary council elections more than 20 times. Mr Francis led the successful campaign to stop aircraft low-flying over Milton Keynes, campaigned against the Poll Tax, the evening and Sunday closure of Central Milton Keynes Shopping Building and the closure of Midsummer Boulevard on the grounds that diverting all bus and cycle journeys was the opposite of what was required for green transport. In April 2001 Mr Francis wrote a parliamentary bill to renationalise Railtrack. The government refused to accept it stating that the structure of the railways was fine. In October that year Railtrack was put into administration in a panic measure by the government. Interviews on Radios 2,4 and 5, Channel 4, Newsnight, Anglia TV, Central TV, Look East, 3 Counties, Horizon. Debates with Ministers and MPs Involvement public service, voluntary organisationsMember New Bradwell Parish Council, 2001- , chair 2001- Member New Bradwell Neighbourhood Council, 1995-2001, chair 1995-2001 Member Stantonbury Parish Council, 1994-2001, chair 1997-1999 Member Milton Keynes Council Section 136 committee, 1994-2004, chair 1999-2001 Member Milton Keynes Sustainable Transport and Road Safety Forum, 1998- Member Milton Keynes Transport Partnership, 2003- Member Milton Keynes Environment Partnership, 2003- Member Milton Keynes Forum 1990- , vice chair 2000- Chair Wolverton Rail User Group; Also at various times member of: MK & Bletchley Rail User Group, MK21 (Local Agenda 21 for MK), MK Energy Agency board, MK Transport 2000, MK Friends of the Earth, MK Cycle Users Group, Rainbow Housing Cooperative, MK Co-operative Development Agency, MK Peace Campaign, RailFuture Policy & Lobbying committee, Make Votes Count Grassroots committee.